Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Home made card reader Date: 2 Sep 2020 08:27:52 GMT Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <3e09fcc3-c125-46c5-a79d-9b3bcccba98eo@googlegroups.com> <842580876.620441061.868355.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <7qnnkflv6900hpeseaab257pijev80e44t@4ax.com> <5f4f43da.6766770@news.dslextreme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jxbFILs52aWbbFz9N5i+swTscupsODBmZy9tB+M7ysOPJ7RY6H Cancel-Lock: sha1:/qEu9VGvD/qF5+UfeW9WFdKDbsU= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:213581 On Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:04:03 +0000, Questor wrote: > On 31 Aug 2020 09:34:31 GMT, Niklas Karlsson wrote: >>On 2020-08-30, Robin Vowels wrote: >>> On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 3:23:07 AM UTC+10, Niklas Karlsson >>> wrote: >>>> Fortran, with its newfangled mixed-case name (note that even C has >>>> not yet advanced to a mixed-case name) [...] >>> >>> Fortran does not have mixed-case names. >>> All names are treated as if they were in upper case. >> >>The name of the LANGUAGE is mixed-case. The quote is not about names >>WITHIN the language. > > The name of the song is called 'HADDOCKS' EYES.'" > > "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel > interested. > > "No, you don’t understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. > "That’s what the name is CALLED. The name really IS 'THE AGED AGED > MAN.' > > Then I ought to have said 'That’s what the SONG is called'?" Alice > corrected herself. > > "No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The SONG is called 'WAYS > AND MEANS': but that's only what it's CALLED, you know!" > > "Well, what IS the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time > completely bewildered. > > "I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really IS 'A-SITTING > ON A GATE' and the tune's my own invention." I wondered how long it would be before someone posted that. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org